[rescue] SS5 mobo

[Dave McGuire]

On Mar 2, 2004, at 3:21 PM, Janet L. Campbell wrote:
>>    That's the processor.  It's either soldered or socketed depending 
>> on
>> when the board was made, but is not "upgradeable" in the SS10/SS20
>> sense.  The Mbus in an SS5 is "virtual" and doesn't come out to a
>> physical socket.
>
> There is no Mbus in the SS5.  The memory architecture is completely
> different and designed around low latency rather than high throughput.
> The microSparc CPU package itself incorporated most of the same glue 
> that
> went into the Mbus interface chips, which is why it can be used with 
> very
> few support chips.

   I must be misremembering the internal architecture of the SS5 then, 
and if that's the case, I stand corrected.  Does the operating system 
not "see" an Mbus from its perspective on an SS5?  (I don't have one 
handy at the moment)

        -Dave

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